Woman Peasants Destroy
Monsanto's Transgenic
Experiments in Brazil
Some 300 Brazilian women
dedicated to fighting
peasants' rights on
Friday took over a
plantation of
U.S.-headquartered
Monsanto Company, and
destroyed part of the
company's materials for
experiments on
transgenic
biotechnology.
The women belonging to
the social movement Via
Campesina were
protesting against the
National Bio-security
Council's authorization
for the
commercialization of two
types of transgenic
corn, announced on Feb.
12.
According to Monsanto,
the one-and-half-hour
protest destroyed the
specimens of transgenic
corn planted in the
municipality of Santa
Cruz das Palmeiras, 244
km away from the capital
city of Sao Paulo. In
the 31-hectare
plantation, transgenic
soybeans and cotton are
also cultivated.
In a press statement,
the world's leading
producer of herbicides
condemned "vehemently
illegal acts like that,"
stressing that the
protest did not even
respect "judicial
decisions."
"The company believes
that disagreements
either ideological or
not "must be expressed
by means of legal ways,
and not by means of
attacks on individuals
and on private
property," Monsanto
stressed.
The company added that
the protesters left the
farm before the police
arrived.
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